skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been seeing this argument pop up a lot lately, and I’ll try to address it (though frankly, I’m not that smart, so maybe somebody else can explain it better).

So what you are trying to claim is that the World Court never explicitly claimed, in direct words, that some of South Africa’s allegations for genocide was plausible, therefor the court never ruled that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide, and therefor, we have no authority claiming that Israel is committing genocide, and therefor, any claims of Israel committing genocide are unfounded.

First of all I want to address how weak this line of argument is. The ICJ is not the only authority which has claimed plausible genocide (yes, the ICJ did claim that; I’ll come back to that), second, we have plenty of evidence which indicts Israel for the crime of genocide, including, but not limited to South Africa’s filing at the ICJ (see sources on Wikipedia). Even if we take your or Joan Donoghue’s interpretation at face value, raxxorraxor’s claim that “the accusation is ridiculous and lacking any form of sincere analysis and judgement” is it self pretty much wrong.

Second, the court did rule that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide, by any reasonable interpretation of the ruling. Even though most people cite Article IV paragraph 54 (See [1]; quoted above) as the smoking gun (which it absolutely is) equally relevant is Article II Paragraphs 30-32 where the court decides it has jurisdiction over the case, citing Article IX of the Genocide Convention. The court would not have done that if it did not think it was plausible that Israel were violating the terms of the Genocide Convention. In other words, the court ruled that some of South Africa’s accusations were plausible. And put yet another way, the court decided that it is plausible that Israel is committing the crime of Genocide.

The problem with your interpretation, and your citing of Joan Donoghue’s answer in this context, is that she is actually answering a question relating to the provisional measures ordered by the court on January 26th 2024 (which is what Article IV is all about), and again on March 28th 2024. My personal opinion is that by answering the question this way she is actually being willfully misleading. It is beyond a doubt that the court decided that some of the accusations were plausible, her clarifying and stating that technically the court only decided on provisional measures, is obscuring the fact that it did rule to start investigating Israel for the crime of Genocide.

ICJ member often rules in alignment with their nation’s foreign policy, and Joan Donoghue has shown that to be the case under her presidency, I actually find it a miracle that the court ruled in favor of South Africa under her presidency. My personal belief is that the case against Israel is very obvious, and there was no way the court could rule any other way. This interview is she rectifying US foreign policy, and offering a plausible deniability to what the court actually ruled.

1: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...
I don't have that here, but maybe there's something similar
But below the video they say they are using it again in April 2024.
The book the sovereign individual talks alot about this. Since multi-national corporations can "tax" the world, and the goverments of the world can only tax their citizens, corporarations will only increasingly outspend governments.
That's how it's done now.

I once had a clogged drain in my apartment. When it was fixed, I was politely asked not to run the water until they could inspect the ceiling in the unit below. They wanted to make sure that it wasn't going to leak on my neighbor below.
You are traffic. Our dependence on car culture made this nightmare we exist in.

You're ranting at the wrong group, they are just trying to get the most done in the least amount of time and disruption, hence lowest cost.
> Wald, §12.1, footnote 1.

That is not describing what you described.

> if we do t -> -t, what happens to a perfect absorber, which takes in anything and reflects nothing impinging on it?

It becomes a perfect emitter, which emits anything and reflects nothing impinging on it. In other words, a white hole.

To put it another way: the inside of a black hole is a region from which nothing can escape and into which everything can fall. The inside of a white hole is a region from which everything can escape and into which nothing can fall. Things coming out of a white hole are escaping from the inside. They aren't reflected.

Everything in Wald that you are referencing is describing what I just described. It is not describing what you described.
I wouldn't call audiobook "settling", I enjoy them more than books with a great narrator.

What got me back into reading was Harry Potter. I hadn't read a book for fun since middle school and had grown to loathing reading of any kind from all the assigned reading. (just give me the cliff notes).

HP was new, all the rage, and wife convinced me to give it a try (she had always been an avid reader). I had maybe 3 books to catch up on and I read them all back to back and was eagerly awaiting the 4th. We'd do midnight releases and each buy our own book and didn't sleep till we were through.
There were several people who had their equipment and/or service comped in Ukraine after asking support to waive costs

Apart from that those dishes were sold at a loss in general and until recently starlink dishes were manufactured above 599. Ukranians still go abroad today and buy it on sale. Leading to a situation where most dishes in Ukraine are imported. And contributing to the Russians are using starlink crisis.

There's people that would go ahead and tell you they've never and there's never been a free dish in Ukraine. Not even from any government. Or service.
> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).

I mean yeah, that makes good marketing copy, but its more due to reducing latency and keeping running costs down.

but as this is mostly marketing fluff we'll need to actually see how it performs before casting judgment on how "revolutionary" it is.
List of Startup Pivots
And it’s cheaper as well!
Ah good to now. I was thinking about this and come to conclusion that city govt, builders, employers which are all powerful entities and they all looking to fill office buildings. But I do not see a powerful counterbalancing force on this issue. Because employees are typically on receiving end of this my way or highway policy.
I don't think GP is suggesting the time was wasted. Rather the opposite.
A slightly nerdier take on this from gridstatus.io was submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40285584
Article doesn't mention one of the more interesting (to me) aspects which was how feedback was avoided. The solution is elegant: each vocal microphone is doubled, meaning there are two at each position. The phase is inverted on one of them, the singer sings into only one, and both are sent to the speakers via their channel's amp.

The effect of that setup is that only the difference between the two microphones is amplified; common signal in both (i.e. the sound coming out of the speakers) is nulled out, but the difference signal (the voice) makes it through. It apparently wasn't quite perfect but was absolutely a lot better than wailing feedback.

The thing that made it sound so good was that any given speaker only reproduces a single source, but the article touches on that. The mic arrangement I described is simply what makes it possible.
The graph of "million dollar cities" reveals an interesting story: The SF Bay statistical area has many more "million dollar" cities than the San Jose statistical area to which it is adjacent.

SF is relatively dense, so the high prices reflect the cost of land. SJ is not dense at all (mostly farmland) and land is not as expensive. This is a further argument for higher density housing of course.

And the argument that wages aren't keeping up is hard to reconcile: if wages can't keep up then the price of houses would be falling.
Haha. Most books are padded or compressed so they fit pretty much the same volume. A paperback can have dense, small type in it, or larger type with wide margins to "puff up" the size. I've also noticed some paperbacks having thicker pages to make it look like there's more material. I suspect books the same size can have a 2:1 difference in the amount of text.
So I looked at Amazon for products. There's an ultrasonic brewer that is used for both cold brew coffee and also for rapid infusion of spirits with charred barrel staves. There's also a stir plate / french press combo for sale that apparently does fine cold brew in 20 minutes.
Are you regularly alone and unconscious when at work?
This is a pretty good answer: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/tree/trunk/wgpu-hal

The "design of WebGPU" is a problem. It's designed for the web to be secure and sandboxed so the API design reflects that. This is not a good thing on desktop.
you can build zed for linux, today :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
"Fascinating process. I wish they had a gift shop that could ship me a momento."

"Ja, natuerlich. Das Effizientestrassenerneuerungkasten."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyIEGRw4-U&t=4m7s
Archlinux, mitigations (spectre alike) off, X11, OpenBox, bmpanel with only CPU/IO indicator. Light theme everywhere. Opera in power save mode. `powertop --auto-tune` and `echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo` Current laptop is Latitude 7390.
I don't agree with relying on the many eyeballs argument for security, but from a privacy standpoint, I do think at least the availability of source to MY eyeballs, as well as the ability to modify, recompile, and deploy it, is better than "trust me bro I'm your uncle Steve Jobs and I know more about you than you but I'm a good guy".

If you want to, for example, compile a GPS-free version of Android that appears like it has GPS but in reality just sends fake coordinates to keep apps happy thinking they got actual permissions, it's fairly straightforward to make this edit, and you own the hardware so it's within your rights to do this.

Open-source is only part of it; in terms of privacy, being able to see what all is being sent in/out of my device is is arguably more important than open source. Closed source would be fine if they allowed me to easily inject my own root certificate for this purpose. If they aren't willing to do that, including a 1-click replacement of the certificates in various third-party, certificate-pinning apps that are themselves potential privacy risks, it's a fairly easy modification to any open source system.

A screen on my wall that flashes every JSON that gets sent out of hardware that I own should be my right.
This very much depends on where you are. I had an apartment in a high-rise building in Austin TX a few years ago that did not have openable windows of any kind (I also did not realise this until after signing the lease, which was unfortunate). I assume the building met code.
I don't think the shape of office buildings is a problem, you can just have stores and storage on the inside and apartments on the outside.

The bigger problem IMO is retrofitting a bunch of buildings that have been built with plumbing in only very select areas to have plumbing ubiquitously.
Honest question. What could you possibly do with a text editor at 120 fps that you can't do at 15 or 30?

I can't think or type that fast and I can't read scroll back that fast either so I can't wrap my head around needing something like that.
To copy URL from Safari, press and hold (long-press) on URL bar

Press and hold also allows options elsewhere in iOS
Never seen anyone actually use this.

The "real" answer is to use names and tables. That and generally not having data flying up down left and right.
True enough... Even in software, I was pretty amazed at how much of a filter of, here's a CSV, use one of N languages to load the data, do a check and output the valid entries to one file and the invalid inputs to an error file. You can use any libraries you like, please create a github repo and share with $ACCOUNT for your solution.

I know not everyone works with CSV necessarily, but there are dozens of libraries for a lot of languages. Even if focused on N being those supported in a given company/org. It should be less than an hour of work. Bonus points for any tests/automation, etc.
I think BenFranklin100 is implying that new residential would be in addition to commerce / office.

The residential helps businesses stay open 7 days a week, instead of closing for the weekend when no one is at work.
Brando Sando or Wheel of Time :)
I don't disagree, although when I composed my comment I had desktop/laptop in mind, as I think genuinely useful on-device smartphone-AI is a ways of yet, and who knows what company Apple will be by then.
As these are templates, processed statically, isn't this essentially happening already?

https://godbolt.org/z/ennj65v9z
> It should spit out arbitrary things and reflect everything impinging on it.

The first is right, the second is wrong. The time reverse of "no reflection" is "no reflection". It is not "reflect everything". "No reflection" means complete transmission through the surface in question. Reversing time just reverses the direction of transmission, in this case from inward (black hole) to outward (white hole).
I'm actually curious what the distinction is in your view. I've never really considered a column to be a foreign key when the constraint isn't used.

Having a column that we give business logic context to is useful, and indexing a column that should contain values for another table is helpful for query speed, but at least in my opinion they really aren't foreign keys unless that constraint lives directly in the database layer itself. I'd say the same for columns that are used as unique identifiers without actually adding unique constraints to the column.

There are good performance reasons to do either one if you're willing to take on the data integrity responsibility in the application code, but the column itself really is just a typed column if the constraints live elsewhere (again in my opinion, I think the technical definitions may ignore this functional argument).

Where I find foreign key constraints helpful for queries is when I need to be absolutely sure of the data integrity. Say I need to make a complex query that joins across three different tables based on foreign keys. If the table constraints exist I know that (a) any value in a foreign key column is valid and the referenced key exists and (b) if no rows are found I can trust that its just because none exist.

Without foreign key constraints, I may not know why the query didn't find any results. It could be because there just aren't any matching rows, it could also be that one of the keys is no longer valid (or never was). If I don't care about that second error state my query may not change much, but if I need to know why the query failed to match and handle any invalid data accordingly I couldn't do it.

When writing, I also much prefer having a single insert that I know will fail if the foreign key isn't valid. This could be done with a more complex query, or a transaction, but then I'd be taking on that responsibility when it could live directly in the db. Beyond the complexity there, I have to assume the database authors would be able to write a more efficient foreign key validation check them I could from my end.

That said, what's been your experience handling foreign keys when the constraint is either unsupported or unused? Do you avoid it mainly for the bump in query performance, and if so how do you avoid that performance hit elsewhere in your code?
We pay whatever they can get away with charging or increasing it to, and often have the standard utilities rolled into the number, which generally seems favorable. I pay rent, insurance, and Internet, rhe rest is rolled into to a max 2% increase per year. If they tried something excessive we'd start looking elsewhere.
A wholly different set of wars
How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Thanks for the feedback. Most access was limited on day one, including:

- Can't view profiles unless you're signed in

- Can't see what lists people are performing unless they're performing your list or a public list

- Can't see privately published lists written by a user (unless you are them)

But yes, I think we can take this a bit further. I've pushed the following updates:

- Can't view a user's draft lists (this was an error, now fixed)

- Can't view a user's activity unless they're working on a list you invited them to perform.

The latter issue was a leftover from a "teams" feature usecase that's been pushed back. But it's more sane now.
Awful. They don't seem to understand excel anymore.

If you want to see this done properly (on some limit) look at pyxll.
Such exploits always remind me of the line from Stross' Accelerando about the ultimate end game for hacking: "running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of space-time itself, trying to break through to whatever's underneath"
It's a search engine, basically?
You might want to play around with the lynx browser as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
If you do any work with K8s, k9s is a handy tool.

https://k9scli.io/
All these new chips and tbh it doesn't really matter if I still can't code on it yet.

These devices have been absolute workflow game changers for the artists in my life, but for coders, it's like a toy and nothing more. They're handcuffed from doing any creative work with it.

It's incredible how powerful these devices are, but so much potential only usable for watching youtube.
Mental health is everything.

It's the reason why there are billionaires and popstars who are depressed/suicidal and stage IV cancer patients who wake up every day with positive thoughts and gratitude.

I also believe it's Nature's way to stop (or otherwise provide some sort turnover) narcissists from taking over the world.

There is a close correlation between bad mental health and time spent thinking about yourself/ego, or thinking at all, that's why mindfullness and meditation work, and also religion/prayer.
From my understanding, the reason RCS was delayed is because Google's RCS was E2EE only in certain cases (both users using RCS). But also because Google's RCS runs through Google servers.

If Apple enabled RCS in messages back then, but the recipient was not using RCS, then Google now has the decrypted text message, even when RCS advertises itself as E2EE. With iMessage, at least I know all of my messages are E2EE when I see a blue bubble.

Even now, RCS is available on Android if using Google Messages. Yes, it's pre-installed on all phones, but OEMs aren't required to use it as the default. It opens up more privacy concerns because now I don't know if my messages are secure. At least with the green bubbles, I can assume that anything I send is not encrypted. With RCS, I can't be certain unless I verify the messaging app the recipient is using and hope they don't replace it with something else that doesn't support RCS.
They are talking about training models, though. Run is a bit ambiguous, is that also what you mean?
I am not sure if you've already experienced-and-disliked his work, but may I recommend Neal Stephenson? I have always appreciated his style of prose, and the way he describes characters. He writes in a nerdy way that I can't quite explain, and I always trust that he will weave separate-seeming narratives together in a way that is satisfying (even if I am often dissatisfied at the _endings_ of his books).

Everyone points to Snow Crash (which I liked too), but recently I also really enjoyed REAMDE and the first half of Termination Shock (I haven't finished it yet). I love the way he describes things. I'd like to say that I could read + enjoy anything he writes on any subject, but for some reason I didn't like his Baroque Cycle books (but don't understand why not).

Also big recommendation for Terry Pratchett. The books all seem silly on the surface but usually have some incisive commentary on wider social issues, as well as being filled with references and humor, subtle and un-subtle. Bonus, they are also a lot shorter than Stephenson's. ;)
And I agree with you. I've made this point on an earlier thread here on HN... but the prices and interest that goes along with it is absolutely insane in places that are remotely desireable (see Phoenix, AZ) and I'd need to be effectively house poor, when the same place I looked at five years ago I could have afforded with my salary at the time no problem.

Such is the dreaded once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe like COVID and the money printing scam that happened after that that destroyed so much value in money. But others that got in before me at historically low interest and reasonable asset prices just tell me I need to buck up and work harder. I bet you they would be shitting bricks if they were in my shoes. It's like a nightmare I haven't been able to wake up from. :(
Examples of building blocks for UI in Emacs:
- transient (notable app: magit)
- hydra (another menuing package for emacs) https://youtu.be/_qZliI1BKzI
- minibuffer helper packages: vertico, orderless, embark, etc https://youtu.be/d3aaxOqwHhI
That's cool.

Sometimes... it doesn't work out.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/know-run-story-behi...
"widely beloved" by whom?
"classic" in what sense?
Exactly this. In the interviews I give I care about whether the candidate can write code, yes, but also talk and think about code.

The conversation is the most important part of the interview, and the thinking (and communication) is the most important thing I'm trying to judge after basic skills.

Like you said, you can get a good sense within the first few lines of pseudocode if someone's at least competent at writing code. But that's just one motivation behind coding questions.

It's also very difficult to talk about code, algorithms, and solving problems without a concrete problem and concrete code in front of the candidate and interviewer. So both the question and the code the candidate writes are mainly context for the conversation where I try to see how the candidate thinks.

These kind of articles make me sad because I (and many other interviewers I've worked with) try to make it clear that this isn't a test - we don't care so much about being "right" or "wrong", and there shouldn't be any tricks of "a ha" moments.

We explain the goals and what we're looking for right up front. And I would hope most interviewers do the same, but I guess not. So there's this persistent myth among both interviewers and candidates that coding questions are about getting a right answer.

That's a shame because coding questions get such a bad rap, but I'm not really aware of a better options. Take-home problems and looking at GitHub are unfair to many people. A well-run technical interview should give lots of people a chance to succeed.
bangalore desperately needs this to fulfill BBMP's very frequent road-digging adventures.
If you are in the US, pick a slow day and chat to the customer service people at Lowes or Costco. Both stores use TUI interfaces for their instore service apps, and boy are they fast with them. They reserve GUI things for the self service point of sale systems and keep the TUI for cases where speed matters. I suspect that these apps might once have been mainframe hosted (in other words, screen-oriented, with the PC terminal doing local processing and not sending the request to the server until the user hits Send) but of course those days are long gone and I imagine that at worst they are running on a TN3270 emulator and more likely they just expose a remote app in a browser or RDP session.

Some things I observe from watching these apps is that navigation clues are always present, keymappings are static from screen to screen (F1 is always help, say), and the UI is such that the user is always in control of the application state.